[GRASS-PSC] PSC elections

[Moritz Lennert]

On 14/12/20 12:43, Moritz Lennert wrote:
> On 14/12/20 09:44, Chief Return Officer (CRO) - GRASS GIS election 2020 
> wrote:
>>
>> On 2020-12-13 23:12, Veronica Andreo wrote:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> El dom, 13 dic 2020 a las 21:19, Moritz Lennert 
>>> (<mlennert at club.worldonline.be 
>>> <mailto:mlennert at club.worldonline.be>>) escribió:
>>>
>>>
>>>     Am 13. Dezember 2020 20:36:05 MEZ schrieb Markus Neteler
>>>     <neteler at osgeo.org <mailto:neteler at osgeo.org>>:
>>>     >On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 7:38 PM Hernán De Angelis
>>>     ><variablestarlight at gmail.com
>>>     <mailto:variablestarlight at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>     >>
>>>     >> Hi again,
>>>     >>
>>>     >> In the wiki, eligible voters are defined as those with svn
>>>     access. This is perhaps outdated?
>>>     >
>>>     >Yes, that's definitely outdated.
>>>     >
>>>     >> In 2020 it should perhaps be those who can merge a pull request
>>>     in GitHub? Or should we choose another definition?
>>>
>>>     Only merge rights (i.e. write access to the grass repository)
>>>     seems very restrictive in current github PR times.
>>>
>>>
>>> Fully agreed! Last time, all of us in the contributors and 
>>> contributors_extra files were given voting rights. We could also 
>>> consider those in translators.csv. I don't remember if they were 
>>> considered last time. I believe they were not.
>>>
>>>     >I believe that we should also recognize other contributions
>>>     >(documentation, translation etc).
>>>
>>>     How to define this, though. In my eyes we should be as inclusive
>>>     as reasonable.
>>>
>>>     Maybe we could say:
>>>
>>>     - All people with write access to any of the GRASS GIS
>>>     repositories (i.e for example also including add-ons and website).
>>>     - All people that have already posted a pull request to github
>>>     (possibly only those PR that have been merged)
>>>     - All people that have contributed to Transifex.
>>>
>>>
>>> +1!
>>>
>> +1 to this too
>>
>> A couple of related questions:
>>
>> 1. is there any easily accessible/searchable list over people who have 
>> the right to vote? How it is supposed the CRO will check this?
> 
> The three files that Vero mentioned are all in the root of the github 
> repository:
> 
> https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/blob/master/contributors.csv
> https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/blob/master/contributors_extra.csv
> https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/blob/master/translators.csv
> 
> I don't know if there are many contributors of pull requests via github 
> that are not in those files, same for translators that might be active 
> on Transifex, but not in the relevant list.
> 
> @MarkusN what is the status of these lists ?
> 
> For github PR contributors, maybe the tool MarkusN mentioned could help 
> getting a list from github.
> 

Maybe we can start with an email to all mailing lists, informing 
everyone that we consider these three files as our "electoral registry" 
and that if anyone feels she or he should be in one of these files, that 
they send a mail to the respective list informing us ?

Moritz